I believe that everyone I meet is my teacher. Good or bad, positive experience or negative experience, they’ve each in their own way taught me something. Not just something about my life or living but something about myself, my behavior, my way of being, who I am, the work I still need to do.  Over […]

When you gradually shed your identification you will find that you are so much larger than your stories, and you have so much to discover about your potential. 

In order to transform our world, we first must transform ourselves. One of the ways in which we do this is being willing to go beyond our daily worries and conflicts as well as the stories we tell ourselves that we are convinced make us who we are.

If we meditate regularly and we do not take care to pull out the weeds on a regular basis that are rampant in the garden of our minds, the spiritual seeds we are attempting to plant won’t likely thrive. 

Since we were very young, we’ve been taught to want to achieve fortune, fame, recognition and all of the material riches that might go along with it. But that path doesn't bring lasting fulfillment.

If meditation becomes something we think we have to DO, we are missing the point of meditation all together. Use your life as your practice.

Where in your life are you holding on for dear life thinking that if you let go, somehow things will either fall apart or that you will never obtain whatever it is you are searching for? 

Here’s a great practice to incorporate to bring mindfulness into your daily life. Essentially, it’s “meditation in action.” I like to say that when we meditate on the cushion each day, it’s more of our “formal practice” but that the rubber hits the proverbial road when we are out in the world practicing mindfulness and […]

Part 4 of 4 If you’ve been following this series over the past three weeks, we’ve been taking a very rudimentary look into the first three of the most basic and most fundamental of all Buddhist teachings: the Four Noble Truths. This fourth post brings us to Buddha’s prescription for how we embark on the […]

Part 2 of 4 Last week, we discussed the very foundation of Buddhist teachings, the Four Noble Truths (see Part One of this series to get caught up!). We explored the reality that life includes “suffering.” It’s simply part of what it means to be human. In essence, our suffering can only be caused by […]